Example Sentences

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Your classmates will smirk and call you a square.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Quidnuncs will quiz, And Balfour-worshippers will smirk and chuckle, And ask if he considers it "good biz" To the Teetotal interest to truckle.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various